Child rape: SC commutes death for child convict

The Supreme Court commutes death penalty of a convict to imprisonment until death over rape and murder of a child in Manikganj.
3 August 2015, 05:22 AM

Teesta water rights and International Law

It has been argued that water shall become a major source of conflict in the 21st century. The world's most utilised trans-boundary watercourses are located in Asia.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Education is our right and not a commodity

Like other ordinary days, I was reading the newspapers and my eyes stucked into news that government has proposed to levy 10 percent VAT on private universities, private medical and engineering colleges.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM

LEGAL ASPECTS OF FELANI'S MURDER

We don't want to see travesty, rather we expect that no perpetrator will be escaped from the purview of law
20 July 2015, 18:10 PM

Combating illicit transfer of children

The story of 14-year-old Absaruddin is simply grimmest as it appeared in The Daily Star on May 17, 2015. The title, 'I want to go back to my mother' says it all.
20 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Let's generate clerkship institution

Bengali educated class have typical aversion to the word “clerk” and the class it denotes, so to appease their anxiety we would like to clarify at the beginning that, contrary to the word “clerk” is used, law clerks do almost no clerical jobs.
20 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Father's right to paternity leave

A mother usually bears the main responsibility of childcare work in family life. Father's has also duty to take care of both mother and child. Father plays a
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Artworks on anti trafficking spirits

We often sense the scream and see the gloomy faces of the ill fated migrant workers who have been hidden in the shadow of our society. Unfortunately their
6 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Proposed Payment System Act 2015: A critical analysis of cheque

Bangladesh Bank circulated a notice published in 'Daily Prothom Alo', in April, 2015 asking for general recommendations that it is going to enact an Act on payment system entitled 'Payment System Act 2015.'
22 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Legal education outside the classroom

During the past several months, I was assisted by two volunteer law students attending Dhaka University, on my research on the labour conditions in the garment industry in Bangladesh.
22 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Son preference VS Gender equality

Reality shows that in Bangladesh sons are considered as future heads of the family, who will be able to assist and provide for their parents in their old age. In such social pattern, sons are viewed as assets and girls as liabilities.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM

To combat human trafficking

A series of news on human trafficking across the sea route of Cox's Bazar have been getting highlighted in national and international media in recent days.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Legal aid to ensure justice to the poor

The shade of good administrative law largely relies on the expansion of legal aid concept.
15 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Preventing street harassment

Generally street harassment means and includes unwanted comments, gestures, and actions forced on a stranger in a public place and
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM

To assess the growth of justice sector

Since October 2014 the School of Law, BRAC University has engaged on a project entitled “Mapping of Knowledge on Projects
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Looking for a new way towards life

Silvaster works in a gas station near La Brea, Los Angeles. This gas station is a place of regular police petrol from Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Most often, the petrol officer in charge send disguised employees into the store to see whether anyone is breaking
1 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Revisiting mandatory death penalty case

Although in the final sense, the ratio of this case strictly involves aspects relating to functions of the judiciary or judicial independence, the decision, nevertheless, carries a strong human rights message which we are eagerly waiting to see to be capitalised.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Access to genetic resources and benefit sharing

THE Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 1992 is the main international instrument providing a general framework for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilisation of genetic resources.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Lowering of marriage age requires amendment

THE proverb goes, “bad news travel fast” and we have witnessed it regarding draft law on child marriage.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Sustainability a 'moral and historical duty'

THE world is facing complex challenges regarding the future of sustainable energy which demand comprehensive and immediate solutions, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson declared on May 20 as he delivered remarks to the General Assembly's Global Energy Ministerial Meeting.
25 May 2015, 18:00 PM